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Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics

Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics

Dan Brock

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Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/0198287976.003.0009

Brock's comprehensive study of measures of quality of life in the area of healthcare shows that doctors and philosophers, in their quest for the best way to assess the quality of patients’ lives, have increasingly turned to a list of functional capabilities, much similar to those proposed in the capability literature and in the theory and practice of Scandinavian social scientists. The field of healthcare offers a rich ground for comparing, contrasting, and assessing different approaches.

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PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2017. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use (for details see http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/page/privacy-policy).date: 20 March 2018